“The LUCI lab at UCI has prototyped a physical version of the bitcoin digital currency for use when technical infrastructure is not available. It is resistant to counterfeiting through embedded NFC chips which contain password protected validation information. In this video we demonstrate scanning the currency to validate it using a 3rd party app.”
Posts Tagged ‘UCI’
Physical bitcoin with embedded NFC - May 29th, 2013
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Social Computing Graduate Research Awards - April 5th, 2013
The Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) for Social Computing, based here at UCI, invites applications for its Graduate Research Awards for AY 2013-14. Graduate fellows will serve a term of one year and will be appointed as Graduate Student Researchers, with stipend commensurate with candidacy status, and full tuition (non-resident where appropriate), fee and health insurance coverage for three quarters during AY2013-14 (Fall, Winter, Spring). Applicants must be graduate students in good standing and may be pre- or post-candidacy. Applicants’ dissertation research should address one or more of the ISCT’s broad research themes: the materialities of information, algorithmic living, information ecosystems, subjectivities of information, and creativity and collectivity. See http://socialcomputing.uci.edu/ for a detailed description of these themes. Graduate fellows are expected to participate actively in all ISTC activities, and must be willin! g to attend monthly meetings, occasional seminars, and workshops and other activities on the Irvine campus, and at Intel Labs in Portland and our partner campuses (Georgia Tech, NYU, Cornell and Indiana University). During their tenure, students are expected to complete a significant piece of research, which will be disseminated via the ISTC’s internal website and other forums.
Applications from all fields of humanities, social sciences, information and computer sciences, engineering and arts are welcome. Please submit a 1-2 page CV and a two-page, single spaced statement of your dissertation research and its connection to one or more ISTC research themes, including a brief description of the work you hope to complete as an ISTC fellow (which may include fieldwork). Please also include a short letter endorsing your research plans from your primary advisor. Applications should be submitted electronically to Julio Rodriguez (juliojr@uci.edu) by May 1. Applicants will be notified of the results by May 17.
The ISTC for Social Computing is one of a network of university-based research centers supported by Intel Corporation. Based at UC Irvine, ISTC-Social is focused particularly on interdisciplinary investigations of the social and cultural aspects of information technology and digital media, and is a partnership with Intel’s Interaction and Experience Research laboratory.
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| Posted: 4/5/13 7:21 pm UTC by admin Make the First Comment | |
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Spring Informatics Seminar Series Announced - March 9th, 2012
UCI Spring Informatics Seminar Series 2012
Featuring Prem Devanbu, Genevieve Bell, Robin Dunbar, Karyn Moffatt, Leah Lievrouw, Sanjoy Mazumdar, Betty Cheng, Morana Alac, Mary Czerwindki, and Sharon Traweek!
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| Posted: 3/9/12 10:10 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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TEDxUCIrvine - March 4th, 2012
Congrats to Informatics grad students Ankita Raturi and Bart Knijnenburg who both rocked today at the TEDxUCIrvine speaking event on campus. The theme of the day was “Under Construction Indefinitely” and in addition to our students 18 other speakers including Francisco Ayala and Erwin Chemerinsky both internationally reknowned scholars on campus. That’s some good company to find yourself in Ankita and Bart!
Among a handful of gaffes that occured during the event was when the M.C. repeatedly mispronounced Bart’s research in “technopsychometrics” as “techo-psychic-metrics” which conjures up very different things. :) There are some other good stories to tell in person.
I’m sure the videos will follow sometime in the future.
Bart Knijnenburg at TEDxUCIrvine
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| Posted: 3/4/12 12:58 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Building a Context Aware Infrastructure Using Bluetooth - January 4th, 2011
Photo courtesy of paulworthington
Congratulations to Informatics Master’s student, Jahnavi Kondragunta on receiving her Master’s degree based on her thesis, “Building a Context Aware Infrastructure Using Bluetooth”.
Abstract: Context qware applications are applications that behave according to the context they are placed in. Infrastructures can be integrated with such applications to develop context awareness and modify their behavior according to the changes in the context. In this paper we present a core system that aids in developing such applications. The system estimates the location of people around the infrastructure by observing the bluetooth devices that they carry. The applications can then use this information as desired. To study the viability of bluetooth tracking and the efficiency of the system, an experimental system was implemented and deployed on the 5th floor of Donald Bren Hall at the University of California, Irvine. The experimental system was put on a trial run and the results obtained were analyzed. The results show that building a successful tracking system based on Bluetooth is complex and requires significant changes to user behavior.
Read the full paper located in the LUCI Tech Report repository, LUCI-2011-001.
Congratulations Jahnavi!
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| Posted: 1/4/11 11:53 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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UCI has most NSF-IIS funding in California - October 5th, 2010
While in a committee meeting today discussing student outreach, the SOAR committee was presented with the following interesting fact: UCI receives the most funding from the NSF IIS Division of any school in California. We receive 14.9%. UCSD comes in second at 11.9%. NSF-IIS is where the Human Centered Computing program is based and this funding pays for equipment, graduate and undergraduate research programs and salaries.
So, yay! Good for us. LUCI is a part of making this happen.
Here is a link to the info viz. (Click on View Chart)
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| Posted: 10/5/10 8:09 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Mimi Ito awarded MacArthur Foundation Chair - September 22nd, 2010
Dr. Mimi Ito
Wow! LUCI Lab friend and Informatics Department member, Mimi Ito has been appointed as the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning. Here is the email that came out from the Executive Vice Chancellor/Provost at UCI:
“I am delighted to announce the appointment of Mizuko “Mimi” Ito as the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning, effective September 1, 2010.
A recognized expert in the field of digital media and learning, Professor Ito holds appointments in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Informatics in the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, and serves as Research Director of the Digital Media and Learning Hub in the University of California Humanities Research Institute. She is a cultural anthropologist of technology use, focusing on children and youth’s changing relationships to media and communications. She recently completed a research project supported by the MacArthur Foundation, a three year ethnographic study of kid-initiated and peer-based forms of engagement with new media. In 2008, she was awarded the Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies from the American Educational Research Association. Professor Ito holds Ph.D. degrees in Education and Anthropology from Stanford University. Her publications include “Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children’s Software”, and the co-authored book, “Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media”, as well as a co-edited book, “Personal Portable Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life”.
Please join me in congratulating Professor Ito on this exciting appointment, and thanking the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for its generous support of this important initiative.”
Michael R. Gottfredson
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Congratulations Mimi!
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| Posted: 9/22/10 4:16 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Photos from “Workshop of the Californias” - September 6th, 2010
Chateau Camou
Bill Griswold (from UCSD) posted some terrific photographs from our recent UCI/UCSD/UABC Workshop of the Californias in Mexico. If you didn’t have a chance to go, you missed out on a fun, informative trip. This is the second Southern California meetup that we have had recently and it seems to be turning into something promising. Thanks to Profs. Monica Tentori and Gillian Hayes for organizing.
More photos here.
Most of the attendees
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Tags: Bill Griswold, fun, Gillian R. Hayes, Mexican food, Monica Tentori, Photos, UABC, UCI, UCSD, workshop |
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| Posted: 9/6/10 8:24 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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UCI Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion’s CfP 2011-2012 - July 13th, 2010
Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion
The Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at the University of California, Irvine is soliciting proposals for original scholarly research on mobile money services to promote savings and other forms of value storage at scale for the developing world. As mobile money services are deployed around the world, they interact with longstanding, often ancient monetary cultures and practices. The Institute seeks to understand people’s diverse monetary ecologies and repertoires as they navigate new means of saving and transferring wealth.
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| Posted: 7/13/10 10:42 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Patterson discusses the good and bad, current role and future of social media - February 1st, 2010
Freaky Picture of Don
“Social media is everywhere – Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, My Space, blogs. Making sense of this online networking universe is Donald Patterson, UC Irvine assistant professor of informatics.”
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